2. Prince William arrives in Falkland
Islands
• Prince William is getting to grips with a new job eight thousand miles away from
home.
• He's started his first day of a six week trip to work as a search and rescue RAF pilot
on the Falkland Islands.
• The Falkland Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean and are run by Britain, with British
residents.
• Thirty years ago Britain fought a war there after Argentina's troops invaded the
islands.
• Even though Argentina lost that war, the rulers of Argentina still claim the Falkland
Islands should belong to them.
• Some people in Argentina are angry that Prince William is working there.
• They have protested on the streets of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital.
• Prince William's search and rescue job with the RAF will be similar to the one he
normally does with them in North Wales.
• The news values in this story are:
3. The news values of this story are:
• Prominence – Prince William is a very well known person due to being a
prince (a royal) and his royal wedding in 2011. As this story is about Prince
William then this story has prominence. Also being about the Falkland
Island’s it has importance to British people as Britain owns the islands.
• Proximity – this story is close to us and about Britain because Prince
William is from Wales and Wales is a part of Britain. Also as the Falkland
Islands are run by Britain then it has something to do with the British
people.
• Currency – this story had currency because it is happening now, Prince
William will be in the Falkland’s for 6 weeks so this news story will have
currency for 6 weeks.
• Human Interest – this story has human interest because people in both
Britain and the Falklands will find this story interesting as it has something
to do with Britain and the Falklands then it will be of human interest of
the people living there.
4. News Website Treatment
• Name: Teens-News-Of-The-Aloud-Cloud!
• Target audience: my target audience are boys and girls around the ages of 12 – 16 yrs
old, because some people around those ages don't like to watch or read about adult
news, like politics because they find it boring, so by having news suited to those ages would
stop teens thinking that all news is boring. I would like to aim it at the teenagers that
wouldn’t really chose to read the news because they are to busy on Facebook or BBM or just
think the news is for adults and is too boring and unsuited to teenagers. I would make it suit
my target audience by making different sections of the website according to different types
of news. Some teenagers but not all like news about politics and “hard news” where as the
majority like “soft news” like gossip and sport. Also by cutting news stories down and getting
to the point in a report, the people who are reading the news wouldn't get bored by reading
loads of writing about one news story, by including more pictures and videos then teenagers
would be more interested as this generation of kids and teenagers are the digital generation
and like visual things.
• Content focus: I will focus on a range of stories, from gossip to politics, each in different
sections of the website under “hard news, soft news” then under these categories would be
a range of news stories groups, e.g. Sport would be under soft news with gossip, and politics
would be under hard news with war and conflict. There would be around the same amount
of soft news then hard news but in most cases soft news would be dominant on my website
because more teenagers like soft news but that's not all.
5. 5 current stories
• Scottish independence: Voters need 'straight choice‘
This story relates to my target audience because some teens like hard news like
politics, this story is political therefore it meets my target audience, it also relates
to my product (website) because hard news and politics will be included.
• Robert Patterson’s New Film
This story relates to my target audience because it is celeb gossip and many female
teens enjoy gossip especially if its about Patterson who is fancied by many girls.
This also relates to my website because this is soft news and soft news/gossip is
included in my website.
• Whitney Houston’s funeral
This story relates to both target audience and the website because most of my
audience like gossip/soft news and this is soft news and it is included in my
website.
6. 5 Current stories cont.
• Prince Charles revealed as Burnley fan
This story links with both my target audience and my website because teens like soft
news and most of the teen male population love hearing and reading about
sport, the story about Charles being a Burnley fan would interest teens. Also being
soft news/sport it will be included in my website.
• British teacher dies in school coach crash in France
This story is hard news, because it is about a death and crash of a British citizen. It
links to both my target audience and my website because some teens like hard
news and find some areas of hard news interesting. Hard news is also included in
my website due to some people liking it.
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Technology
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